Snape's love

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 18391

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., koinonia02 at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., bellemichellem at y... wrote:>
> 
>  I absolutely agree- you cannot draw any conclusions as to whether 
> > Snape will fall in love (or has been in love) from that 
interview. 
> It 
> > could totally be that he'll never love (although I hope not!) I 
> heard 
> > the interview at one time (a radio interview), and the way she 
> > sounded convinced me that she isn't necessarily going the way of 
a 
> > love relationship for him, past or future.  
> 
> 
> I have to believe there WAS a love relationship, or there IS a love 
> relationship, or there WILL BE a love relationship involving 
Snape.  
> The question centered on *love*.  How shallow and boring of a 
> character Snape would be if we didn't learn something along the 
line 
> of *Snape was deeply in love*.  Nah, there's something about this 
guy 
> that is going to surprise us.  He is not just some meanie with a 
bad 
> attitude.  There's a reason he is as he is and IMHO it involves 
love 
> in some way.
> 
> Koinonia

I think you are right in that there is something about Snape - and 
that he is going to surprise us.  However, I am not sure, although I 
agree that it is likely, that it is wholly to do with some kind of 
love interest which has gone wrong etc.  I think that the way he is 
stems from some time earlier than this.  

I have been intrigued by the reports of Snape as a student.  Turning 
up at Hogwarts knowing more curses/hexes/dark arts than any 6th year 
students I find particularly interesting.  Where did he learn this 
from?  Who are his parents?  What kind of background does he come 
from?  The Marauders make him out to be a very unpopular character, 
so in this he differs from Draco, who is at least popular with his 
own housemates.   This may be the Marauders' POV.  I tend to think of 
him as similar, and much less pleasant as the Hermione we first 
encounter - the rigid adherence to rules, a know-it-all etc.  I get 
the feeling that he tried very hard to be teachers' pet, but that 
even the majority of the teachers found him repellent.  Perhaps one 
of the reasons he puts Hermione down, besides her house and 
friendship with Harry, is because he was treated in a similar way 
when at school.

Oh dear, I've lost the thread a bit here.  There are many things 
which fascinate me about Snape, and a few of them have got jumbled 
up.  

Catherine